Faith without doubt is addiction.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
We are the storytelling animal.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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We all owe death a life.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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